Example sentences of "[adv prt] in the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A child was brought in in the last stages of diphtheria . |
| 2 | Primary elections are very popular with the television industry ; they make for good visuals , and they allow producers to focus ad infinitum on personalities rather than getting bogged down in the boring complexities of issues . |
| 3 | The Franco-German axis styles itself as the leading force in the Community and , while both countries make explicit reference to their special relationship in speeches in each other 's countries , the primacy of this alliance is clearly played down in the other countries of the EC , not least because it negates the whole point of having a community . |
| 4 | We returned from our walk aglow with wind-reddened cheeks , divested ourselves of boots and outer layers of wrapping and flopped down in the deep chairs of the sunset-lit lounge chatting , until David left at around 10 p.m . |
| 5 | More seriously , Edward 's scheme to create a monopoly in the export of wool broke down in the early months of 1338 . |
| 6 | Their quarterly meetings were anodyne affairs , chaired by a genial buffer named George Mackie ( later Lord Mackie of Benshie ) , whose deliberations were too often bogged down in the drearier aspects of Liberal Party policy . |
| 7 | A bird came down in the topmost branches of the tree in which the cat lay in wait . |
| 8 | They will want to know why the Government have decided to shove the Bill through in the final weeks of this Parliament . |
| 9 | Their own personalities come through in the different styles of writing and their different approaches . |
| 10 | from Kingston to Lynn to Yarmouth the coast was strewn with wrecked vessels , cliffs had slipped into the sea and disappeared into the brown tide and over in the low-lying lands of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire the salt-waters swished and groped where no man remembered ever to have seen them before . |
| 11 | But pilgrimage too is seasonal and not to be marked off too strictly from tourism any more nowadays than it could have been marked off in the great centuries of the sacred trek to Compostela . |
| 12 | Mike Marsh became the third Anfield star to be shown the red card in successive European Cup Winners ' Cup matches when he was sent off in the closing stages of the defeat against Spartak Moscow on Wednesday . |
| 13 | Many hours were taken up in the dark recesses of the developing room at Oxford 's photography workshop ; even more spent waiting for the precise moment to open the shutter . |
| 14 | In the wild they spawn in fast-flowing streams , and the fry grow up in the slower reaches of the river . |
| 15 | Rather , the idea was to see people as simultaneously subject both to natural and instinctive drives while at the same time caught up in the various forms of culture and social relations which human societies construct in a more conscious way . |
| 16 | WC apps : 8 The Belgians tend to be ignored until they suddenly turn up in the latter stages of major tournaments — the final of the 1980 European Championship and the semi-finals of the last World Cup . |
| 17 | I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head . |
| 18 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 19 | It is a medical fact that the body is at its lowest ebb between three and six in the morning and the ability to react , the ability to think when one is being woken up in the early hours of the morning erm are a consideration that we take into account when we have to mount an operation inside a premises . |
| 20 | Children , having built up in the early stages of their lives an ‘ ego ideal ’ with whom they have had apparently satisfactory relationships , are for the rest of their lives attempting to transfer this ideal on to other people or organisations . |
| 21 | Attacks on the Beira corridor pipeline to Zimbabwe were stepped up in the early weeks of 1990 . |
| 22 | Mary of Guise was brought up in the charmed circles of the greatest French aristocracy . |
| 23 | Prayers for the safety of John Dakyn were probably necessary , as he was caught up in the religious controversies of the age . |
| 24 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 25 | The other lamb 's getting tangled up in the other parts of that Russian vine 's gone over . |
| 26 | Far up in the northern reaches of Canada roam vast herds of caribou , a deer which we in Europe call the reindeer . |
| 27 | Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury . |
| 28 | Since her infancy Mann , a professional photographer , has documented her three children growing up in the idyllic woodlands of their dream home in south western Virginia . |
| 29 | More likely , though , is my mates shopping me — I 'd end up in the back pages of 90 Minutes ( ‘ my mate 's sad cos he 's convinced he looks like Eric Cantona when in fact he 's got a face like an orangutan 's bum ’ ) or become the subject of an earnest letter in When Saturday Comes ( ‘ As a Whites fan since before my birth , I am appalled by the recent upsurge of so-called Canto lookalikes , I can no longer walk the streets without being overrun by people with sideburns and spurious French accents ’ , etc etc . ) |
| 30 | In the 19th century , biologists , growing up in the halcyon days of the Industrial Revolution , saw all life as a struggle to survive . |